We love our Corelle. However, have not had the experience of any shattering. WHen eating our meals outside, we use either disposal or some cheap plastic we also found at WalMart.

We are taking our Corelle set for four.  Paper plates for outdoor eating.  A couple of unbreakable glasses along with plastic disposable cups but will also have 2 glass wine and beer glasses.

Sorry if this is abrupt...I am getting things set up for our moving sale this coming weekend.  Housewares on this table, electronics here, holiday decorations over there, etc.

 

i was getting things ready for a garage sell this weekend until my daughter's team squeaked into their end of season conference tournament so now instead of selling stuff this weekend we will drive to florida... do i look upset :) of course not...

Gene,
We call it bouquet.

Okay friends .... thanks for the chuckle of the day.

 Grandpa used to say "They are as clean as cold water can get'em".



WE found out years latter that he had a dog he called.....  You guessed it.




Coldwater.

We're currently using Corelleware, but would love to find some of the melamine dishes that are OK to microwave on.  There are so many pretty designs and colors, but all that I've found are marked "Do Not Microwave" on the bottom.  Of course, one of us would forget and use them in the microwave.  I think it has something to do with bad things leaching into your food from the plastic -- of course, that would take a long, long time.

I use mostly pyrex for cooking.  We have no "real" oven.  Our microwave is an Advantium, which is also convection, and cooks with light as well.  Pyrex can be used in any of those circumstances.

Anyone find microwave-safe melamine?

We used to use paper and plastic exclusively. When we bought our new Carri-Lite we ordered it with a dishwasher. We then began using a set of Corelle dishes we bought several years ago and have always carried around in the trailer...just never used.
The dishwasher is amazingly quiet, efficient and effective. Now the DW does not mind using "real" dishes as she can use the dishwasher to clean them.
My preference has always been real dishes and glasses over paper and plastic so I am happy. Nothing is worse than cooking up a delicious steak and then trying to eat it from a paper plate...and I always hated throwing so much plastic into the trash.
By the way, I do no think there is such a thing as microwave safe melamine. Melamine, by the nature of it's construction cannot be put in the microwave for more than a few seconds as it will get super hot very quickly and will literally burn up.

Because we are environmentalists, we stay away from anything plastic. We've chosen to use these very lightweight stainless-steel plates and enamelware bowls. For the rare times we use the microwave, we use Correlle we pack into a picnic suitcase when moving.

When we lived in our RV we used a lot of paper plates.  I consider myself an environmentalist, and I know reusable is better, but this was just too convenient for me to pass up.  I always use the ones that look like they are just paper.  I should call the company and find out what is in them, so I know if I can burn them in our woodstove or not.  In our current S&B we use regular ceramic plates and metal plates.  The metal plates are labeled "Marble Canyon" on the back.  Cute flamingos.  I plan on using those in the RV.  I don't know about the microwave though.  We'll need at least 2 microwavable plates, bowls, cups.  I also use glass (pyrex w/ plastic lids)for all of our leftovers.  I may have to move to (shudder) plastic when we get back on the road.
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Fred; you're right. We've only broken a single Corelle dish in the 20ish years or so we've been using it. It was a bowl and fell on the floor. Survived the fall but did not survive the 4 cup Pyrex measuring cup landing on top of it…the good thing is that there was no single piece large enough to cut you left intact; the bad thing was the thousands of little pieces. We were finding them for weeks.

We're taking 4 place settings of Corelle on the road with us but will probably end up using paper whenever we eat outside. We're getting the dishwasher in our NH so cleanup will be pretty easy.

OTOH, once we have a Corelle break and go everywhere we may end up with the non-breakable ones as well.

We are keeping 4 small crystal ****tail glasses and are looking for some decent crystal wine glasses without stems; I've seen them before but haven't really searched for them yet. Wine and drinks just don't work out of a paper cup.

-- Edited by Neil and Connie on Thursday 5th of April 2012 05:22:07 PM

I am so glad someone posted this topic and luvglass, I'm with you. I want my real wine glasses and dinner wear (not corell or plastic or paper). Those are fine on many days. I have this lovely china, silver & crystal and we might as well use & break them as they are not our kids patterns!
Another friend uses the sock trick and saw great dividers/glass holders at quartsite show, should have bought then then.

Still dreaming of full-timing, but I am doing my research!  I found this interesting:  http://govinowine.com/about.html .  It's nice and unbreakable!

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-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:22:24 PM

We have Melamine and have yet to use them. We have a motto "make it easy - keep it simple!" We use durable ( wax coated - for hot food ) paper plates and plastic knives,spoons,forks. If we had company - we'd most likely use the Melamine :>)

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We use relatively inexpensive plastic that we find at Walmart or Target. We had Corele When we first came out and one day a cabinet opened on the road and we had 50,000 little shards of Corele on the carpet that took literally months to gather it all up. Never again!

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 We use a similar setup - plastic plates.  I'm surprised that so many use Corelle.  We had Corelle years ago and also had the misfortune to drop a plate.  It literally exploded into a zillion extremely sharp shards of glass that we found with our feet and shoes for months.  Unless the composition of Corelle has changed we'd never consider it for any kind of use!

We also use Corelle and we have a few platic glasses. I also picked up one of the divided plates at a military surplus that is great.